On Fri, 22 Jul 2005, Bob Proulx wrote: > Dax Kelson wrote: > > Bob Proulx wrote: > > > I am thinking that the most portable way would be to actually chgrp > > > and chown something and create the group and user if it fails. > > > > Ugly. When I first started doing the getent checks, I examined many > > different UNIX flavors from the open source BSDs, to Solaris, HP-UX and > > several Linux distros going back to 1998. They all had getent. That is > > portable enough for me. > > HP-UX does not have getent. You must have installed it yourself. I > don't know about the other systems. As near as I can tell getent is a > GNU glibc'ism. Since HP-UX is one of my primary platforms and it does > not have getent I can't use it there. That prompted my comment about > chown. getent has been standard on Solaris for years, which is I believe where Linux initially modeled it from. Some of the BSDs have now acquired it as well.... later, chris
